Fetch by Bramwell, Colin

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Author: Bramwell, ColinPoetryPublished on 8 September 2026 by And Other Stories in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 96 pages, Illustrations132 x 199 x 10 | 116g
In Celtic folklore a fetch is a shadowy doppelganger that appears from the Otherworld, portending the beholders fate. Your fetch fetches you to the afterlife, willingly or otherwise. Bramwells poetry uses the fetch as a model to explore a number of overlapping binaries between the reader and the poem, most of all. Fetch also meditates on the differences between music and speech, the sacred and the profane, the written and the real, humanity and nature, Scots and English. Incorporating multitudes of modes, forms, registers and subjects, Bramwell converses with the Anglo-Celtic lyric tradition in our own time and in his own distinctively amiable fashion. In other words, this poet takes poetry seriously but not too seriously.Fetch is an astonishingly musical tour-de-force from one of Britains most exciting new poets, in which reverence and irreverence, religion and faithlessness, the living and the dead, nearly rhyme.